"heh heh heh... 'spiders?'"

[prickvixen]

More baby spiders. I must have put out close to two dozen more of them. My theory is that the ant invasion of a few months ago provided the attic spiders with unprecedented quantities of food, resulting in unprecedented quantities of new spiders.

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[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

This is the problem with a live and let live attitude toward bugs, they set up a whole food chain under your pillow and start making hives in you ears and stuff.

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

Well, there wasn't much I could do about the ants. I wasted their scouts when I saw them, but they inevitably found every piece of unsecured sugar in the apartment, and in some surprising places. I wasn't happy about having to kill them. Though I became less unhappy about it as they persisted.

[footpad.livejournal.com]

Serves you right for keeping sugar in your orifices.

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

They found sugar encrusted on the caps of cordial bottles. They found it on an Altoids box inside another box on a shelf in the bedroom closet. They found it on a box which had once contained petits fours. The most surprising incident was their finding a piece of gum which someone had used to plaster up a hole in the baseboard.

[murrypurryfurry.livejournal.com]

And then we'll get lions to kill the spiders!

[dumpsterskunk.livejournal.com]

I don't see them very often, but we've had a number of tokay geckos that lurk around the house that mostly keep the bug population under some degree of control, though the recent appearance of various enormous cockroaches makes me wonder if they haven't all moved away or something.

[neillparatzo.livejournal.com]

Ant baits work great for me. They're fire-and-forget, and I always see the ants gone within 48 hours.

I don't let anything live in my apartment unless it's willing to pay its share of the rent. So far, no offers.

[centauress.livejournal.com]

The ants here come in two types; ones that ignore all bait and ones that love it, but there are so many of them it doesn't do any good. They both are invasive, non-natives; the baits work great on the natives, so I just don't bother.

Barriers work better; the greasy raid behind the baseboard, cedar oil in living spaces, diatomic earth under furniture and in the carpets, and boric acid where house-grease (like under the stove and cabinets) might collect.

Oh, and spiders in the houseplants and cabinets get the flies and ants that do make it in ^-^

[neillparatzo.livejournal.com]

I've only gotten little lines of tiny ants (and only since having a 1st floor apartment).

I think they're native. I say this because they're each wearing 6 tiny, comfortable sneakers and carrying tiny ant lattes.

[defenbaugh.livejournal.com]

And unprecedented amount of spider sex...


...apparently. Good thing the wasps dont know about the spiders yet..